Published September 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Transport coefficients of a massive pion gas

  • 1. Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
  • 2. Departamento de Fisica Teorica II, Universidad Complutense, Madrid (Spain)

Description

We review our main results concerning the transport coefficients of a light meson gas, in particular we focus on the case of a massive pion gas. Leading order results according to the chiral power-counting are presented for the DC electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity,shear viscosity, and bulk viscosity. We also comment on the possible correlation between the bulk viscosity and the trace anomaly in QCD, as well as the relation between unitarity and a minimum of the quotient η/s near the phase transition. (authors)

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Journal Title
Chinese Physics. C, High Energy Physics and Nuclear Physics
Journal Volume
34
Journal Issue
9
Journal Page Range
p. 1453-1455
ISSN
1674-1137

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Notes
2 figs., 18 refs.